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Ukraine plans to conduct another operation next week to return the bodies of fallen defenders. Oleg Kotenko, the Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances, said this at a briefing at the Ukraine-Union Media Centre. "We expect the return of the living, but it also happens that we take the bodies of our dead soldiers. By the way, next week we will also conduct such an operation to return the bodies of our defenders," Kotenko said, noting that he hopes to return those soldiers whose fate is unknown. In one year of work, the Office of the Commissioner for Persons…

Russia's statements about the alleged threat of radioactive contamination due to Ukraine's use of armor-piercing shells containing depleted uranium do not correspond to reality. That’s according to the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, Ukrinform reports. "There is no radioactive cloud or any unusual radiological activity in Ukraine. Environmental radioactivity across Europe is monitored by various levels of European governments and by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre,"  reads the report posted on Twitter. Read also: Lukashenko claims Russia launching nuke transfer to Belarus According to them, Russia is "leveraging the lack of public knowledge regarding depleted uranium tank ammunition in an…

The pre-war population of Irpin is restoring - 85% of residents have already returned. The mayor of Irpin Oleksandr Markushyn said this in an interview with Ukrinform. "85% of the city's population has already returned to us," he said. In addition, the mayor added that Irpin has received almost 25,000 internally displaced persons, mostly from the east. According to Markushyn, 95% of Irpin's population was evacuated at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. "If we hadn't evacuated the city, there would have been tens of thousands of deaths. We have a city of a hundred thousand people - at the…

The Leopard tank consortium has achieved progress in establishing a new maintenance hub for German-made tanks being provided to Ukraine, and it has long-term plans to ramp up production. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stated this at a press conference following the Ramstein 12 meeting on Thursday, Ukrinform's own correspondent reports. “Today members of the Leopard tank consortium discussed their progress in setting up a maintenance hub and furthering their efforts to resource this important program for years to come,” he said. Austin also informed that at the meeting on Thursday, the members of the Contact Group discussed long-term…

In the Zaporizhzhia region, near the temporarily occupied Melitopol, National Guard soldiers shot down two Russian Su-25 attack aircraft with portable anti-aircraft missile systems. That's according to the National Guard on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. As noted, on May 25, Russian troops tried to attack the positions of the Defense Forces using a pair of Su-25s. At that time, the National Guard "Zaporizhzhia Avenger" and his colleague - were on combat duty. They identified the enemy aircraft and practiced firing on air targets with man-portable air defense systems. "As a result of combat operations, the first Su-25 aircraft was completely destroyed,…

The Russian Federation has already started moving nuclear munitions to the Belarus territory. This was stated by Aleksander Lukashenko, BELTA reports. "He (Russian President Vladimir Putin - ed.) informed me that today he had signed a decree on our actions on the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus. It was about a specific document. A decision was made to develop what was voiced earlier. We had to prepare storage sites etc. We did it, so the transfer of nuclear munitions has already started," Lukashenko said. Answering the question of whether nuclear weapons are already in Belarus, Lukashenko replied: "It is…

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, addressed the Ukrainians against the background of fake reports circulated by Russian media claiming his alleged "injury" or "death". The video was released by Colonel Anatoliy Shtefan (“Shtirlitz”). "Throughout May, we are witnessing enchanting and science fiction stories made up by Russian propaganda, as well as various conspiracy versions by so-called experts. Finally, today, on May 25, I’d like to reveal a massive secret, a really massive terrible secret about the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," said Shtefan. After that, Zaluzhnyi comes into the frame, saying: "I sincerely thank…

The Ukraine Defense Contact Group has allocated about $65 billion in security assistance to Ukraine to further strengthen and improve the capabilities of the Ukrainian Air Force in real time and in the long run. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said this in his opening remarks at the 12th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. "In total, the Contact Group has committed nearly $65 billion in security assistance. Now, Putin was hoping that our resolve would fade. And he was betting that our unity would crack. Instead, we remain as united as ever," Austin…

Currently, the territory of the Kherson region is completely mined. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, Ukrinform reports.  "For example, the Kyiv region. We thought that it was heavily mined, then it turned out that the Chernihiv region was even more mined, the Kharkiv region even more, and the Kherson region is completely mined," the official said. He reminded that 174,000 square kilometres of territory are currently considered mined in Ukraine. When asked how long it would take to clear our territories of mines, Klymenko said that the speed would depend on the area and…

There is no reason to delay Ukraine's victory and the liberation of all Ukrainian territories from the Russian army, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. He said this at the Kyiv Security Forum, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. "A lot of people now are saying that the war that Putin started can only end in negotiation, and I say that that may very well be true, but before any negotiation, this war can only end with the victory of the Ukrainian people, the expulsion of Putin's army and the end of his barbaric attempt to take Ukrainian territory,"…